🌅 AI Daily Digest — March 18, 2026

Data Pulse

• 1 news articles
• 5 trending models
• 5 research papers
• Cheapest GPU: Tesla V100 at $0.02/hr
• 3 new AI jobs

Today's News

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• Delhi Technological University, TimesPro announce the inaugural Advanced Certificate Program in Artificial Intelligence https://www.dailyneuraldigest.com/newsroom/2026-03-18-delhi-technological-university-timespro-announce-t/ — Delhi Technological University and TimesPro have launched an Advanced Certificate Program in Artificial Intelligence to address the growing demand for skilled AI professionals. The program aims to equip students with practical skills and knowledge in AI, machine learning, and data science. This certification program is designed for working professionals and students who want to enhance their careers in AI.

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Trending Models

Model	Task	Likes
openai/gpt-oss-20b	text-generation	4462
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	text-generation	5574
Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	text-generation	1140
openai/gpt-oss-120b	text-generation	4586
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B	text-generation	1140

Research

• Demystifing Video Reasoning — Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu. Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities.
• MessyKitchens: Contact-rich object-level 3D scene reconstruction — Junaid Ahmed Ansari, Ran Ding, Fabio Pizzati. Monocular 3D scene reconstruction has recently seen significant progress.
• ManiTwin: Scaling Data-Generation-Ready Digital Object Dataset to 100K — Kaixuan Wang, Tianxing Chen, Jiawei Liu. Learning in simulation provides a useful foundation for scaling robotic manipulation capabilities.
• SparkVSR: Interactive Video Super-Resolution via Sparse Keyframe Propagation — Jiongze Yu, Xiangbo Gao, Pooja Verlani. Video Super-Resolution (VSR) aims to restore high-quality video frames from low-resolution (LR) estimates, yet most existing VSR approaches behave like black boxes at inference time: users cannot reli...
• SocialOmni: Benchmarking Audio-Visual Social Interactivity in Omni Models — Tianyu Xie, Jinfa Huang, Yuexiao Ma. Omni-modal large language models (OLMs) redefine human-machine interaction by natively integrating audio, vision, and text.

GPU Deals

GPU	Price	Provider
Tesla V100	$0.02/hr	Vast.ai
RTX 3080 Ti	$0.04/hr	Vast.ai
RTX 3090	$0.05/hr	Vast.ai

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AI Jobs

• Senior Design Engineer at Loancrate (Remote)
• Senior Platform Engineer at Loancrate (Remote)
• Senior Security Engineer at Loancrate (Remote)

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Community Events

New this week:

• Google I/O 2026 (Mountain View, USA)
• ICLR 2026 (Online)
• MLOps Community Weekly Meetup (Online (Zoom))
• Papers We Love: AI Edition (Online)

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